2018 Week 6 MAC Preview: Bowling Green Falcons @ Toledo Rockets

Nothing supersedes tradition.

It doesn’t matter how lopsided a rivalry is. It doesn’t matter that Toledo has beaten Bowling Green in eight-straight matchups.

Students from Bowling Green will engage in the annual tradition of running the game ball 25 miles from the visiting team’s campus to the home stadium. A rivalry trophy is on the line as well. Formerly, the Peace Pipe trophy was transferred between the two Ohio-based programs, but that changed in 2011 to the Battle of I-75 Trophy — an award only Toledo has been presented.

There’s no hiding it. These programs hate each other. The animosity between the two neighboring colleges is so evident that Toledo actually possesses a rocket from the…